Again, a law may be both constitutional and expedient, and yet may be administered in an unjust and unfair way.

It is a sin to be silent when it is your duty to protest.

But the proclamation, as law, either is valid, or is not valid. If it is not valid, it needs no retraction. If it is valid, it can not be retracted, any more than the dead can be brought to life.

Public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed.

This nation under God

Certainly there is no contending against the Will of God; but still there is some difficulty in ascertaining, and applying it, to particular cases.

Let all Americans - let all lovers of liberty everywhere - join in the great and good work. If we do this, we shall not only have saved the Union; but we shall have so saved it, as to make, and to keep it, forever worthy of the saving.